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Friday, August 31, 2012

This is a card
that I made for our monthly SOTC—Sisterhood of the Traveling Cards--Swap on SCS.
Fay was our hostess for August.Here is
her challenge:For the month of August we're
going to have a FALL theme. Please make a card inspired by the Fall colors of
brown, gold, orange, red, etc. and or Autumn images/themes. Whatever you love
about Fall and are inspired by.

I love when
the leaves change colors in the fall—we can see a woods from our deck.With all of the hot weather and lack of rain,
I am not sure what the colors will be like this year.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

It is the 28th,
so I am here to welcome you to another round with the Calendar Girls!

Who are the Calendar Girls? We are a group of bloggers who want to have a place
where friendships blossom, creativity abounds, and encouragement prevails! In
keeping with that dream, this blog group has been created so we will have a
place to interact and enjoy being fellow bloggers.

This month
Debbie posted our August Theme--Calendar Girls Olympics!

Since the Summer Olympics are now going on, I decided the theme for this month
would be our very own Calendar Girls Olympic challenge. There are two parts to
this month’s theme:

1. The colors of the rings on the Olympic flag
are: blue, yellow, black, green and red. Your card must have at least one
embellishment and it must be in one of those colors.

And lastly, when posting to your blog, please let us know what your card
represents about the Olympics.

I love the Olympics and was glued to the TV every night and most of the time during the day too! I have the opening and closing ceremony DVR’d (but I have to admit I have not watched either of them all the way through yet).Being a former coach as well as a High School Athletic Director, sports are a passion of mine.So, I really had to pare down my ideas and limit the sport I wanted to highlight.But, then true to form for me, I found a Whipper Snapper stamp that had a few of the sports from the Olympics and inked it up!I then used Baker’s Twine in the five colors of the Olympic Rings tied on the bottom!

Here is a picture of the inside of my card.I used a Soccer Ball Brad in honor of the gold medal by the USA Women’s soccer team!

Please check out the blogs of all of the Calendar Girls—there are 10 of us, so it might take you a bit.I am sure you will enjoy all of the Olympic creations. All of the blogs are listed on my left sidebar. Thanks for joining us!!!!!!!

Monday, August 20, 2012

Here is the second of the two swap
cards that I made for Samantha’s Anything with Wheels Swap she posted on SCS.We have quite a few bikes in our garage and
are taking a 500 mile bike trip in September around part of Lake Michigan.My main role will be the sag-wagon for the
other three riders, but I am taking my bike and will spend some time on it.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

It is the 15th of the
month and that means another Dueling Darlings challenge. Our hostess this month for the Divas is
Kelly.The theme that Jeanette, the
hostess for the Dazzlers and Kelly—who both happen to be the inspiration for
this wonderful group of ladies in the first place-- came up with is “Are You
Game””!In celebration of National
Scrabble Week, let’s use the theme “are you game”?Kelly sent a cute Whipper Snapper stamp—Pair of
Aces!What a sweet image.She also sent a whole slew of items to use on
the card and challenged us to use two of the papers, one button, one ribbon,
one bling and the wooden “card suit” charm.I think I met the challenge!I
made a 6x6 card as I wanted to make sure everything fit and try to not make it
look too busy……………………………

Please
be sure to stop in to see what all of the Divas as well the Dazzlers have
created this month. All of the blogs are
on the left sidebar of my blog.I am
sure you will enjoy all of the creations for our Game! Thanks for joining
us!!!!!!

Friday, August 10, 2012

This is the card for
the 3rd round an Unidentified Image swap on SCS. It is a group
of ladies who are a part of a bi-monthly swap where we all use the same
image, sent to us by the hostess. The unidentified part is that we to not discuss the image at all until the day they are to be posted--today! The images for this round were provided
Janet.She will swap the cards and include
the next image that Terry, our next hostess, provides in our return envie. And then we get to do it all again!!!!

I have a few House
Mouse stamps, but not this one. Isn’t it
cute!I think the soft pink colors are a
perfect accessory for the image!I am
not sure if you can see it, but I used a clear glitter pen on the little guy’s
ears and face! I also like the multi-color baker's twine as it has pink, green and brown in it.

Image/Sentiment—House Mouse Take
Time to Smell the Flowers/SU Warm Words

Sunday, August 5, 2012

It is the 5th
of the month, so I am back with another challenge of the Crafty Gals!We are a group of bloggers who have monthly challenges, caring comments &
fun chit chat on SCS—our favorite stamping site to visit.This
month, the challenge was posted by Carolina.Here
are the details of her challenge:

"Animal Birthdays"

Two of my son's are having birthdays this next months. Since we didn't do any
b-day cards I challenge you all to do one using an animal character and four
shapes of any sort somewhere in the card plus colors red and blue. Is this too
much to ask? Good luck.I love to make birthday cards and I also have a few animal stamps.OK—so that was the easy part………..Red and Blue-not a problem; cardstock and
patterned paper-check!4 shapes?Really?Here we go…..1—circle for the image (does a scallop circle count as
another?)2—Tag for the sentiment.3—Star brads in the top corner.4—Square brads in the bottom corner.And—for extra credit—a rectangle and triangle
pennants on the inside. Does a bone count as a shape? I met the Challenge!

Image/Sentiment—Craft Lounge-Pat the Bad Dog/Sentiment-Stampin’ Up Short and Sweet

Accessories—Circle, Circle Scallops, Large Tag and Pennant
Punches; Square, Star and Bone Brads; Copic
Markers; Gelly Roll blue glitter pen (on scallops) and blue ribbonPlease check
out the blogs of all of the Crafty Gals.All of the blogs are listed
on my left sidebar and I hope you will enjoy all of our Animal Birthday creations.
Thanks for joining us!

About Me

Barb

Welcome to my crafting blog. I do truly love card making and am happy to share some of my creations. In addition to blogging--I am found daily on SCS--Splitcoast Stampers. I am an active participant in the swap forum--as a hostess and a swapper! I am lucky to have met a few of these wonderful ladies in person and hope to meet more as time goes on. I am the BRAK--Birthday Random Acts of Kindness --Coordinator on SCS. I also Coordinate the Welcome RAK Newbie Committee.
I am a retired teacher and was also an Athletic Director for the last 17 years. I am still active in the state association--WADA as well as the National association--NIAAA.
Thanks for stopping by my Blog!